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" Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. "

Thomas Babington Macaulay

" When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. "

John F. Kennedy

" Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something. "

" Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions. "

" Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know. "

" I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry - writing at writing. "

" Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express. "

" Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words. "

Anatole Broyard

" There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract, so it lives with you longer. "

" A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. "

" I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike. "

" You can be intuitive when you've got a more expansive role. You can get into the poetry of telling the story rather than just pushing buttons. "

" The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it. "

Mahmoud Darwish

" Dancing is the poetry of the foot. "

" I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests. "

" Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together. "

" A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance. "

" Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. "

" I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator. "

" Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. "

" Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about. "

Wislawa Szymborska

" I grew up in New York City. In elementary school, I was a charter member of the Scribble Scrabble Club, and in high school, my poems were published in an anthology of student poetry. "

Gail Carson Levine

" Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science. "

" I think music is poetry in the sense that I think the condition of poetry I'm going for has some qualities of music that it aspires to. "

" Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. "

" I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation. "

" The next big push in my life is trying to get poetry popular again. "

" I write the occasional poem. I think my dabbling in poetry makes me better at screenplays. Poetry teaches the value of condensing, the importance of talking in a few words. "

" We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine. "

" He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. "